Machine for making compound fabrics



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MACHINE FOR MAKING COMPOUND FABRICS. No. 398,320. Patented Feb. 19, 1889.

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GEORGE A. FULLERTON, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

MACHINE FOR MAKING COMPOUND FABRICS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 398,320, dated February 19, 1889.

Application filed April 8, 1887 Serial No. 234,102 (No model) To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE A. FULLERTON, of Boston, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Machine for Making Compound Fabrics, of which the following is a specification, reference being had to the accompanying drawing, forming a part hereof.

My invention consists in a machine for making compound fabrics, and relates especially to the fabric patented by my Letters Patent, No. 308,603, dated December 2, 1881, though it may be practiced advantageously in the manufacture of other compound fabrics.

In the drawing, which is a view, partly in section, of my new machine, (with one of its side frames removed for greater clearness,) and which shows coils of sheet material, hanging rolls, brakes, and the compound fabric reeled, A is a glue-distributing device made up of a well, a, a distributer, a and a pressroll, (o B is the powder-distributing device, (patented by J. \V. Baldwin by Letters Patent No. 351,483, dated October 26, 1886,) and is made up of a reservoir, 1), a measuring-roll, Z), a striker, b and an adjustable distributing-bruslnb" I)", and l) is a compressing device made up of rolls d d", dsc. All these parts are mounted in frame F, the rolls being properly journaled therein, as will be readily understood from the drawing without particular description, the roll (I being rotated by the meshing of gear 1 with pinion 2, and rolls a 1)", d, (Z and d being adjusted by means of setscrews fin a way too well known to require description.

As it is necessary that the glue or the like should be kept in an adhesive or sticky condition until the compound. fabric is made, I make the roll (I with. ahollow shaft for the introduction of steam in a way too well. known to require description.

The scrapers g are journaled. in frame F, and their edges are brought into harder or lighter contact with the rolls (o d, d, and (Z by adjustment of their weights 9'', whereby the rolls are kept clean and. free from glue or the like.

One of the sheets, X, of which the compound fabric Z is composed is placed at a convenient distance from the machine, and one of its ends is carried over a roll, 0c,conveniently hung from the ceiling under a brake, on, and. over another hanging roll a", past brush 00 and. rolls 00, between distributor to, which rotates in. well a, and its press-roll a by means of which the glue is laid evenly on. the sheet X, to the compressing-rells (Z d, where another constituent sheet, Y, of the com,- pound fabric meets it, one end of sheet Y being carried past .rolls y and a brake, y, as will be plain from the drawing. By carrying the sheets over and past the rolls and brakes a: a" and 1/ y the sheets are freed from wrinkles and made smooth for the reception of the glue treated with powdered chrome alum, and the action of brush 00 cleans the sheet X before it reaches the glue-distributing device A. The sheet X, 011 its way from glue-distributing device A to compressing device D, passes with its glue side uppermost under powder-distributer I by means of which I dust the glue-treated surface of sheet X with powdered chrome alum, with which I supply reservoir 1), audby bringing sheets X and Y together in the compressing device I am able to produce a greatly improved variety of my said patented fabric, the rolls (1 cl (l d d d compressing the sheets X and together and causing them to unite with great firmness, and the chrome alum mixing with the glue, because of its being powdered, so as to produce a much better product than is obtained when the glue is treated with chrome alum in other ways. After the compound fabric leaves the compressing device D it is ready to be reeled and to be carried to the drying n room. It is plain that either or both sheets X Y may be sheets of simple or compound fabric.

I am. aware of Patents No. 238,991, Toye, March 15, 1881; No. 97,221, Orinsby, November 23, 1869; No. 217,582, Sargeant, September 27, 1881; No. 168,186, RusselLSeptember 28, 1875; No. 17 5,7 71, Siehmon. and Rest, April 4, 1876; No. 31,021, XVilson, December 24, 1881, and No. 237,055, January 25, 1881, and disclaim all that is shown in them.

hat I claim is The herein-described combination of gluedistributing device A, powder distributing device 13, and compressing device D, With two mounted to direct the fabric to meet the pewsetsof guides, one set guiding material to the dered surface of the other sheet, substantially IO glue-distributing device and anotherset guidas and for the purpose set forth. I

ing material to the compressing device, the 1 powder device being mounted between the FULLER'I glue-distributing device and the compressing Witnesses: I

device, and that set of guides Which directs EDWARD S. BEACH,

the material to the compressing device being JOHN R. SNOW, 

